Novelization: From Film to Novel

by Jan Baetens

Book Overview

Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In Novelization: From Film to Novel, Jan Baetens explores how transforming an original film or screenplay into a novel establishes a new genre and revises our understanding of narrative theory more broadly. A typical example of popular literature, novelization has remained an overlooked practice in spite of the cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081425473X
• ISBN13: 9780814254738
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"